The future is rosé because REAL men drink pink… just like Brad Pitt and me

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Jeremy Clarkson

May 22 2020, 16:20 ET

IN the past week sales of rosé wine have skyrocketed by a massive 400 per cent.

And God alone knows what will ­happen when ­people other than me start drinking it . . .

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Actor Brad Pitt is said to love a glass or two of roséCredit: The Mega Agency

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Sales of rosé wine skyrocketed by a 400 per cent last week as the weather improvedCredit: Alamy

About ten years ago I began to realise that if I drank white wine in the evening, the alcohol would slowly turn to sugar — so at four in the morning I’d sit bolt upright in bed, with my heart beating like a jack ­hammer and my eyes out on stalks.

I couldn’t have been more awake if a wolf had just walked through the door. I therefore switched to red wine, which meant that by nine in the evening my face was in the bouillabaisse.

So I alighted on rosé and I’ve never looked back.

A lot of people think it can only be drunk at lunchtime on a hot summer’s day. This is ­nonsense.

It also works well when it’s raining, foggy, windy, drizzling, cloudy or cold.

I’ve drunk rosé on Bonfire Night and Christmas Day. I even took a case to the North Pole.

This really is a wine for all occasions.

It goes perfectly not just with avocado and salad but also with meat, fish, curry, pasta and cornflakes.

Some call it lady ­petrol, saying it’s a girls’ drink. They reckon it’s just Sarah Jessica Parker in a bottle.

'REAL MEN DRINK PINK'

But that’s not so. Brad Pitt loves it. And the best sort is Léoube. Which is made by the family that also makes JCB diggers. So there you are. Real men drink pink.

And it’s easy to see why.

You can spend hours a day in the gym trying to change the shape of your body.

It hurts, it makes you sweaty and the results are a long time coming.

Whereas if you have just three large glasses of rosé in the evening, which is not hard work, your body will change shape in no time at all.

And don’t forget that if you drink rosé, wine enthusiasts won’t bore you to death about the claret they had last night and how it had high notes of hot handbags in a Bovril factory.

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They will assume you aren’t interested in wine at all. Which you’re not, because you’ll happily put ice in it.

Rosé may look like wine and smell like wine, and it may come in a wine bottle, but there’s no snobbishness to it.

It’s just something you drink because you want to feel happy.

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Amber Heard wowed fans on the red carpet at the screening of the film 'Pain and Glory'Credit: Reuters

Because what other part of a horse can you ride on?

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The best-selling car in Britain last month was the battery-powered Tesla 3Credit: Alamy

Hmmm. I reckon the reason is simpler. To buy a car in the middle of a lockdown you have to be mad.

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Bowlers will no longer be able to use their saliva on the ball while playing cricket due to Covid-19Credit: Getty Images - Getty

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